You are in good company. Many contemporary philosophers are foundationalists who adopt a more liberal picture of the foundations than Descartes.
There are many versions of liberal foundationalism. A key question that divides liberal foundationalists is whether all foundational beliefs are based on evidence . Some liberal foundationalists hold that certain beliefs qualify as foundational not in virtue of being justified in a direct way by our evidence, but rather by being products of certain reliable belief-forming processes , such as perception and intuition.
To see which of these views you might prefer, consider a simpler question: